The problems that are besetting our alternative energy industries stem from market forces whose groundworks were laid back in the 1980's. Read More...

It's an interesting angle: Google admits to using a huge number of megawatts in its data centers, but look how many millions of trips to the library that saves. Read More...

What's so remarkable about this seemingly innocuous story is, "What took them so long?" Who knew that for all these years those pleasure boats we saw from the beach were dumping their offal into those incoming waves? How many other situations surround us where we are unprotected from obvious environmental assaults? Read More...

A year ago, Stephen Swift, a local Honolulu businessman ostensibly engaged in hazardous waste disposal, found himself jailed for two years for failing to dispose of quantities of perchloroethylene, commonly called Perc,. Instead of taking it to the local hazardous waste disposal site where it would have been safely disposed of for a fee,... Read More...

Desso, a Dutch-based carpet company, embraces the cradle-to-cradle philosophy, changing its materials and processes until it produces nothing that is not recyclable, as either technical or biological non-toxic material. Read More...

Several hundred people have elected to get themselves arrested by demonstrating in front of the White House against the proposed Keystone pipeline, designed to carry oil from Canada’s tar sands in Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries. Much of the state of Nebraska – hardly a liberal environmental bastion – is against its passage through... Read More...

The EPA isn't watching and the media aren't talking while the cleaning products industries continue to sell us products laced with toxic chemicals that we unwittingly absorb. Read More...

There is a real potential for the flooding from Hurricane Irene to cause the chemicals sequestered in ponds and other open catchments in its path to spill over into nearby rivers, lakes and other waterways -- like this one, in Raritan, New Jersey. Read More...

Over 75 per cent of all processed foods in the U.S. contain at least one genetically engineered ingredient, according to the Grocery Manufacturers Association. Over 90 per cent of all the soybeans, corn, cotton and sugar beets planted in the U.S. are grown from genetically modified seeds. Although genetic modification of our food looks... Read More...

The market for green jobs in the U.S. continues to fail expectations despite subsidies, in part because of lack of demand and bureaucratic delay. But the real kicker is the fact that labor-intensive manufacturing continues to be done everywhere but here. Read More...